“I know,” Tina said after a moment as she too came to grips with the information. “We all agreed on this. You checked with every one of us. It was unanimous. I don’t blame you Senor Count, any more than I blame myself.”
He couldn’t agree with that last part. He knew it would be some time before he would forgive himself for what happened to Lauren.
“Do we know why this happened to him?” He asked, pushing his feelings down. “There was no indication of this with anyone else.”
“I have a guess,” Mrs.Beth said. “We have discussed people who have some kind of baseline revulsion to you, even when they had just met you. We believed Lauren was one of those people. I think that those people have some kind of … genetic allergy I guess is the only way I can put it … to you, Senor Count. We know that
